Pets

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (7)
  2. 7. Large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots (7)
  3. 9. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  4. 11. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  5. 13. Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests (10)
  6. 14. One of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope (8)
  7. 16. Large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails (5)

Down

  1. 1. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (6)
  2. 2. Any of several large eared ___ of the northern Pacific related to fur ___ but lacking their (7)
  3. 3. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion (5)
  4. 5. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back (6)
  5. 6. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits (9)
  6. 8. Small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails (8)
  7. 10. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)
  8. 12. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  9. 15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all (3)